Is Google Maps getting worse?
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    Google consistently routes people to make a right turn across an unsignalised dual carriageway near me. (Australia, we drive on the left).

    This right turn is so prone to crashes that every single weekday morning and afternoon there will be multiple tow trucks just waiting for a crash.

    To avoid this intersection and turn right on to the dual carriageway at a location with traffic lights is only a matter of driving less than 1km in either direction on a parallel side street. Yet Google tells people to go past the traffic lights to make this turn. Idiocy.

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    The recruiters also like to remove your name and contact details so that the companies they are selling you to can't bypass the recruiter.

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  • Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes | SMH
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    Be very surprised if labor changes direction before the election.

    As much as I would like to see negative gearing limited to new builds only and capital gains tax discounts removed entirely.

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  • [GVMERS] The Rise and Fall of Unreal Tournament
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    Played UT4 at a few LAN parties circa 2015 - 2018.

    Frustrating that they never went back to finish UT4 off after Fortnite BR turned in to a money printer. It felt so close to being ready.

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  • Keyboard apps stop working correctly in Voyager comment section.
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    identical environment.

    if I tap out words, then they will appear as i hit each letter. if i use swipe, then i get no preview of the word, the word just appears after i lift off and touch another key.

    very annoying, cant live without gesture/swipe typing.

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    A rally will be held in Margaret River at the weekend to call on the state government to fund rapid bushfire suppression equipment and scale back “failing” prescribed burns in the South West. Globally there has been a shift towards adopting new early detection and rapid suppression equipment to quickly identify and extinguish bushfires. The technology, including smoke detection cameras, satellite monitoring, AI software and drones to give a bird’s-eye view to spot developing fires, is already operational in Canada and California. It is being rolled out in European countries and along the east coast of Australia. WA Forest Alliance senior campaigner Jason Fowler said the WA government and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions were lagging and reliant on “outdated and dangerous” policy. “The prescribed burning program is no longer effective at protecting South West communities in a drying and warming climate,” he said. “Only half of prescribed burns close to communities have been completed last year because they are too risky. “Forests are also suffering with an increasing number of high-intensity burns causing severe damage.”

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    City’s $720m plan to transform riverfront
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    If they can create something similar to Brisbane's south bank it would be really awesome.

    Lots of shady trees. Not vast expanses of concrete / pavers and native shrubs, that just does not make for a nice place.

    A proper pool plus water playground.

    Just keep anyone who has Yagan square and Elizabeth quay on their CV the fuck away from this.

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  • BMWs, Mercs spray painted. Strike force set up.
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    Mercs and BMW only. I wonder what the motivation was. Audi fan? Environmental protest? Wealth inequality protest?

    Also a gla180 is hardly a luxury car. Gutless little JUHB more like.

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    Likely a pipe dream at this stage. But having just visited south bank in Brisbane it would be awesome to create something similar here. What I liked about south bank: -big shady trees to sit under Lots of nice places to hang out that don't require you to be a customer open access pool, water playground. Lots of places to eat If Perth tried to do it, we would need to bring in the team who did south bank, and keep away the clowns who made the shadeless concrete wind tunnels like yagan square and Elizabeth quay.

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    'This is outrageous': Basil Zempilas accuses government of bullying and stealing land over school deal
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    "steal people's land" Sit down Baz, it's just a paid car storage area. It's hardly "the people's land" at present. If anything making it in to a public primary school is more for the people.

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  • Installed GrapheneOS for the first time
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    Ironically it was when the stock android upgrade on my pixel 7 completely bricked my phone (due to the multiple user profiles bug) that I decided to jump in to Graphene head first.

    Compared to my experience running random ROMs on Samsungs back in the era of galaxy note 1 to 4, Graphene installer was so easy!

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    I'm sure if we keep voting for the Libor and Laberal parties they will eventually fix it right?

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    https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/australian-new-vehicle-efficiency-standard-frequently-asked-questions

    Looks like we are finally working towards a fuel efficiency standard. Will be interesting to see what the final details are, especially the year at which manufacturers have to hit zero emissions, and if it's going to be a linear change to get there or otherwise. No doubt legacy parts of the industry will be busy lobbying for their own interests instead of the planet's.

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    Not sure I agree with the title that no one can ”escape” it. I think the wealth hoarding class does very nicely out of everyone else's misery. Perhaps if things don't turn around their grand children might go from owning the whole country to facing a guillotine. More likely once there is a large enough percentage of people who will have no hope of owning, then they will start to have an effect at the polling booth.

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    Economists tie them selves in knots trying to justify record immigration: If you own a business, of course it lowered wages, give us a pat on the back. If you are a worker, of course it didn't lower wages, give us a pat on the back. One thing that isn't getting mixed messages is what the increased demand has done to the housing market. Albo would like all the renters to starve harder for the economy please.

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    Recently made the switch to Graphene and am trying to get my main email away from outlook.com What's everyone using for calendar event invites? I have a mixture of some events that only I need to see, but others I send and receive invites to people using gmail, outlook etc. Currently trying out free Proton, but it's a bit limited. For example if I make a recurring event there seems to be no way to edit or remove a single recurrence. Also would like to be able to use say simple calendar widgets with it. Edit, also discovered that invites sent from gmail to proton simply don't arrive. Happy for a paid service provided I'm not treated as a product for advertisers to market to.

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